LABEL: SO RECORDINGS / SILVA SCREEN RECORDS


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Hamish Hawk’s follow-up to 2021’s breakthrough LP “Heavy Elevator” and 2023’s critically-acclaimed “Angel Numbers”, both sublime and literate records that saw significant plaudits at both press and radio, including – no mean feat for an artist previously self-releasing in the current climate – six singles playlisted at BBC 6 Music.

Of ‘A Firmer Hand’, Hamish says: “Writing this album, I opened up my closet, and a skeleton came out. The thing that links all of the songs is a sense of the unsaid, whether out of guilt, shame, repression, embarrassment, coyness, whatever it might have been. I realised: I am going to say these things, and not all of them are going to make me look good. The album made so many demands, and I just gave myself over to it.”

It takes only a couple of listens to be sure that it was a risk worth taking. And just a couple more to determine that “A Firmer Hand” is the best and boldest record Hamish Hawk has delivered to date. “It’s a bit of a coming of age record,” he says. And a record for the ages.

Tracklist

1. Juliet As Epithet
2. Machiavelli’s Room
3. Big Cat Tattoos
4. Nancy Dearest
5. Autobiography Of Spy
6. You Can Film Me
7. Christopher St.
8. Men Like Wire
9. Questionable Hit
10. Disingenuous
11. Milk An Ending
12. The Hard Won